Confederate Flag Fragment

These silken colors of the battle flag of the Confederacy have been fashioned by a Virginial girl whose father, before she was born, was wounded while fighting under them. Yet she, with consistent Patriotism, cheered three of her brothers when they recently went to Cuba with General Fitzhugh Lee in the Volunteer Army of the United States in the war with Spain.

Miss. Juliah Mann of Petersburg, Virginia, through a friend who knows and admires him, pre sents these colors with her compliments of Colonel N.P. Pond of Rochester, NY – A Gentleman whose courtliness, in time of peace, must be the reflex of his gallantry in war. Petersburg, Virginia. November 17th, 1899.

A piece of the first rebel flag captured in the last Civil War. The flag was taken from the roof of a Hotel in Alexandria, May 24th, 1861 by Col. Ellsworth. Coming out of the hotel with the flag, the bearer was shot dead by the landlord, who in turn, was killed by Ellsworth’s soldiers. One of these soldiers was Mr. Frank Brownell. Mr. Brownell gave a part of the historic flag to a Mr. Millard, whose son in turn gave a piece to Mr. Sam’l Mc Auliffe, who gave this piece to N. P. Pond in Nov. 1899.